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DialogBlocks has display problems on KDE. What can I do?

April 26, 2017dialogblocks display KDE problems

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DialogBlocks has display problems on KDE. What can I do?

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If you are using KDE and find that DialogBlocks backgrounds display some areas in grey, try disabling the GTK-QT theme by removing the gtk-qt-engine package via the package manager on your system, such as YAST (SuSE) or Networks (Xandros). Examples of KDE-based systems that include gtk-qt by default are SUSE Linux 9.2 and Xandros 4.2. Unfortunately gtk-qt is quite buggy, preventing GTK+ applications from properly painting their backgrounds (at least in gtk-qt 0.6 and below). Try installing QtCurve instead, which provides a consistent look and feel between KDE and GTK+ applications. Note: From 4.19, DialogBlocks works around the GTK-QT theme bug so this should no longer be necessary.